This collection was a bit of a mixed bag so I'm going to review the three major arcs / titles separately. If I had to give a rating to the entire work it would be a 7.75/10 According to trade publication ICv2, the first issue of Unbelievable Gwenpool was the 6th best-selling comic for April 2016, selling 100,852 units. [7] Accolades [ edit ] Big Ronnie: A woman who sells "battle spandex" costumes and runs a mercenary for hire business. She made Gwen's suit and gave her her superhero name by accident. In M.O.D.O.K: Head Games Gwenpool is hired to take out M.O.D.O.K., she succeeds in her mission but immediatly feels guilty after seeing M.O.D.OK.'s memories with his family, she then proceeds to rewrite the story and erase what she did so that it's as if he never died. Love Unlimited The Unbelievable Gwenpool #21 Review: Believable And Bland". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. 2017-09-20 . Retrieved 2018-07-09.

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Various Heroes and Villains: Gwen has made friends and enemies among various heroes and villains. So far however they only seem to remember her in her actual presence and she has surprisingly not yet got a main nemesis, though she tried to make Dr. Doom into one and ended up befriending him instead. None of them believe Gwen when she tells them she is in a comic and Ms. Marvel even suggested she might be a reality altering mutant, ending in Gwen getting rewritten into that role, even though Gwen does not really believe it and only accepted it because it opened up a lot of paths for her comic to continue. In various animated series such as Marvel Rising and Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Ghost-Spider's civilian identity Gwen Stacy has Gwen Poole's partially dyed pink highlights in her blonde hair. This was cited by a character designer for Marvel Rising having mistaken an image of Gwen Poole by Gurihiru for Gwen Stacy while using Google Images to reference the former character's physical appearance during the series' development.

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Interview: Christopher Hastings on creating Gwenpool and writing Vote Loki". Archived from the original on 2020-08-09 . Retrieved 2017-05-06. Gwenpool ( Gwendolyn " Gwen" Poole; colloquial: " GwenPool"; " Pink Slayer") is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A girl from the real world transported to the Marvel Universe, her physical design originated as an amalgam of Gwen Stacy and Wade Wilson created by Chris Bachalo for a variant cover of Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #2, which was one of twenty such variant covers published due to the popularity of Spider-Gwen from June 2015. According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Gwenpool Holiday Special #1 was the 16th best selling comic book in December 2015. [62] [63] [64] In the 2015 Gwenpool Special, Gwenpool is hired on her first mercenary job, to kill a villain. After completing her mission, Gwenpool attends a Christmas party hosted by She-Hulk, where she is seen talking to Ms. Marvel. [22] Gwenpool unmasked

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Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 - Gwen appears in the game, voiced by Becca Stewart. She replaces Deadpool as the host of the bonus missions, and is also a playable character. Jim Johnson of Comic Book Resources called The Unbelievable Gwenpool #1 a "fun and decidedly comical precedent that bodes well for the series," asserting, "As this issue combines a sweet and beloved character with one of comic's deadliest and most sarcastic mercenaries, Hastings places himself on a tightrope with his story; falling off to one side means developing Gwen as a little too sugary for hardboiled Deadpool fans, and the other means making her a killer in the eyes of those who see her as an alternate version of Peter Parker's onetime girlfriend. He largely dodges that choice for now, and justifiably so, and so this high wire act is a persuasive selling point for the series' upcoming issues for now. [...] There's a kind of uncertain demeanor to "The Unbelievable Gwenpool" #1, where Hastings begins to explore his character in earnest while remaining vague about the concept's longterm workability. For now, though, the comic carries a lot of darkly humorous fun and has earned the benefit of any doubt." [71]Gwen-Pig: To fool the aliens who were after her Gwen dressed a pig up in her costume. The pig was later adopted by MegaTony and apparently insists on still wearing the costume. Gwen Takes Over". Marvel.com. Archived from the original on 16 April 2015 . Retrieved 4 July 2016. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) But her attention-seeking journey from mercenary to Avenger (okay, West Coast, but still) is complicated when she learns how to manipulate the comic books she herself appears in! As her continuity dramas get ever more convoluted, will Gwen go bigor go home? Sasaki, Chifuyu; Kawano, Naoko (October 27, 2017). グウェンプール:こっちの世界にオジャマしま~す (MARVEL). Tankōbon Softcover.

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Chrysostomou, George (2022-08-19). "The 10 Best Deadpool Versions, Ranked". Screen Rant . Retrieved 2022-09-18. MegaTony: An Alchemist former team member of Gwen's. He had a hard time adjusting to life in the super community when their mercenary team fell apart, but Gwen helped get him a job working for Peter Parker. The West Coast Avengers" 1-10 by Kelley Thomson, Stefano Caselli - This was not my bag. I was offput by the quantity of forced romance, where seemingly every character is dating another with little development put into relationships outside of physical intimacy. The characters on the whole feel very one note (with perhaps Kate / Hawkeye being the only exception) and Gwen is especially underwhelming being reduced to nothing more than a source of quippy, sarcastic one-liners. The humor on the whole fell really flat for me and given that was a large focus of the series the title was a slog to read, proving the adage 'nothing is worse than bad comedy'. I did like the overall plot trajectory and some of the set-pieces were pretty entertaining (especially the Kaiju battle of the first storyline) but overall the series was pretty underwhelming. 6.5/10

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Gwenpool co-creator Heather Antos has expressed interest in a crossover series between the character and Doctor Aphra (another Marvel character she had co-created for Marvel's Star Wars comic book series Star Wars: Darth Vader and its spin-off Star Wars: Doctor Aphra), depicting the duo as being best friends, commissioning fan art of the characters together, [94] [95] [96] and of Gwen Poole herself with a Star Wars universe redesign, wielding a lightsaber. [97] Unfortunately, the second half of the omnibus is a bit weaker. Not terrible, but not up to the same high bar as the first half. I recommend pausing for at least a day at that point, just to ease the contrast.

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In 2017, Comic Book Resources ranked Gwenpool 1st in their "15 Popular Comic Book Characters That Started As Jokes" list. [54] Vincent Doonan: A rogue Doombot who first hired Gwen when she defeated M.O.D.O.K. and then turned against her when he decide she was the biggest threat to his quiet small town life style. This resulted in him getting credit for saving his neighborhood from the alien arms dealers he was actually working with and unwanted attention as a hero. After trying to take out Dr. Doom together the two seem to have reconciled and become friends. He allowed Squirrel Girl to access his systems for her computer class and helped resurrect her friend Cecil. Dietsch, TJ (June 7, 2017). " Edge of Venomverse: Enter Gwenpool". Marvel.com . Retrieved June 7, 2017. An alternate universe's version of Gwen merges with a Venom Symbiote that has unique medium awareness and knowledge of the Marvel Multiverse, [81] but is killed and absorbed by the "Poisons" of Venomverse. [82] Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again (2017) [ edit ] Superfan becomes super hero! Gwen Poole was an avid comic book reader — until she found herself transported into the Marvel Universe! Now, surrounded by characters that she knows everything about — including their secret identities! — and fully aware of the tropes of super hero storytelling, Gwen is determined not to be an “extra” in this brave new world. But her attention-seeking journey from mercenary to Avenger (okay, West Coast, but still…) is complicated when she learns how to manipulate the comic books she herself appears in! As her continuity dramas get ever more convoluted, will Gwen go big…or go home?

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West Coast Avengers" isn't a bad series, and it works well as a follow-up to the Kate Bishop "Hawkeye" series (by the same writer). However, reading the whole series in one go makes me notice the dangling plot threads which never got resolved. As a Gwenpool story, it's not particularly significant, except for her romance with Quentin Quire. Gwenpool is fully aware that she is in a comic, [49] and can step out of and into comic panels, alter fictional characters, dump characters into the "gutter space" between panels, interact with word bubbles, and use her knowledge of the Marvel Universe to determine characters' weaknesses. [50] In West Coast Avengers, Gwen notes she is not fully able to exploit the comics medium with her powers as she did in her own title, making her think it was part of a potential character reboot, noting that her powers are specifically no longer working quite as well when other people are watching her.